Ignacio Sanchez

Ignacio Sanchez (15 September 1830-2 July 1915) was the President of Mexico from 1910 until 1911, when he was overthrown by the Mexican Revolution.

Biography
Sanchez was the son of a pure Iberian Spanish father and a Zapotec Indian mother, and was a veteran of many wars under Mexico. He first fought in the Mexican-American War since the age of eighteen, then the Reform War of 1860, followed by rapid promotion in the Mexican Civil War of 1862-1869. In 1910, having served as a cavalry commander, Diaz had enough power to overthrow the corrupt government of Porfirio Diaz.

He promised prosperity to the Mexican people, but many of these promises proved to be empty and Abraham Reyes started his own revolution in early 1911. Backed by the United States, Sanchez brutally crushed many of these rebellions by use of mass executions by firing squad, but the rebels continued to flock to Reyes' banner. At the Battle of El Raton Creek in 1911, a large army under Matteo Robina was crushed and Sanchez's colonel Agustin Allende was killed in the fall of Escalera to the Rebeldes. With Nuevo Leon and Nuevo Paraiso in rebel hands, the Rebeldes marched on Mexico City and took the city by promising any unit who would defect higher pay. Sanchez lost the capital and fled the country. He died in France, while Mexico descended into more civil wars.